Category: IT

  • Turning My Home Server Into A NAS with MergerFS and SnapRAID

    Turning My Home Server Into A NAS with MergerFS and SnapRAID

    I finally got around to building a NAS out of my home server. I used MergerFS and SnapRAID to turn my ProxMox node into a single mountable network drive that had redundancy, while being able to swipe a drive and throw it into another PC and still read that data without overhead or formatting. And…

  • The Mini-Base | Data-Base Station

    The Mini-Base | Data-Base Station

    A Nerd’s Warehouse In this little package is a full home lab and GMRS radio repeater all-in-one! On the left you’ll see 4 mini-PCs that are all clustered together under ProxMox, hosting a variety of different things. Moving right, the upside-down thing is a Protectli Vault that hosts my firewall to the network. Speaking of…

  • How To: Make Multiple Folders From Text File

    How To: Make Multiple Folders From Text File

    The Code On Windows, if you open up PowerShell ISE, you can paste this into a new script file. It will run from the folder it is placed in so make sure you have a blank folder to start. Create a new text file in the same directory called “People.txt”. If you have another use…

  • Virtual Machines

    Virtual Machines

    Your computer is too powerful!!! For most day-to-day applications and services, you don’t need a whole computer, but you may need separate computing power that is dedicated to one service. Let’s talk about what you can do to host your services more securely and efficiently.

  • Raspberry Pi WordPress LAMP server – JUST the commands you need to make it happen

    If you have a Raspberry Pi and would like to turn it into a web server to host your own WordPress website, here are all the commands to make that happen. There is no fluff, just copy the commands one-by-one and you’ll have your site up and running in no time!

  • How To Host a Website On Your Own Home Computer

    Yes, your computer can be a webserver! You can do this with just about any computer. Like an old laptop, your current main computer, or even a raspberry pi! This is how you would do it on a Windows machine.

  • How The Internet Works

    How The Internet Works

    A study by Pew Research Center showed that 88% of adults use the internet in America in 2016. The rest are people who rely solely on their smartphones. But do you know what really happens when you search for something on Google? You might not think it, but everything is connected. How Internet Do Things? In a…

  • Everything You Need to Start a WordPress Blog!

    Everything You Need to Start a WordPress Blog!

    There is a lot of information to learn about when just starting out in making your first website. I get it, all you want to do is just get the answers you need to make something show up when someone enters your website’s name. Even if you are a techie, or just a small business…